Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1889 — Dakota Drouths Explained. [ARTICLE]

Dakota Drouths Explained.

WashiijEton Post. The people in the wheat-raising portions of Minnesota and Dakota say that their crop will be a failure this year unless they get rain very soon. We have always cautioned these peonle and pointed out to them the underlying principle of the Darwinian theory. Nature supples only those things which are made use of. It is said that as soon as the tail became useless to man he lost it and as soon as he quit wriggling his ears the muscles with which he used to wriggle them became no muscles at all. If the people of the Northwest persistently decline to use wpter when they have it of course nature will, in time, quit giving it to them.